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To learn more about acquisition opportunities please contact your local art dealer, or click to learn more below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eNOTE: The Collaborator Proof edition has been reserved for important public exhibitions, major gallery retrospectives, and select private collections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSerigraph on Coventry Rag Paper\u003cbr\u003eAuthorized Estate Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImage and Paper Size: 55” x 26” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimited Edition of 295 Arabic Numbers\u003cbr\u003e99 Patrons’ Collection\u003cbr\u003e155 Collaborators’ Proofs\u003cbr\u003e5 Hors d’Commerce\u003cbr\u003e50 Commemorative Proofs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1958 book, \u003cem\u003eYertle the Turtle and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1958 book, \u003cem\u003eYertle the Turtle\u003c\/em\u003e, has a little-known and somewhat surprising origin. In a 1987 interview Ted said: “Yertle was Hitler or Mussolini. Originally, Yertle had a moustache, but I took it off.” During the run-up to WWII, FDR was battling the isolationist “America First” supporters who were seeking to keep us out of the war. Ted believed American isolationism was not an option and that Hitler needed to be stopped. 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